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The Aphrodisias Copy of Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 September 2012

K. T. Erim ,
Joyce Reynolds ,
K. D. White  and
Dorothy Charlesworth
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Extract

One group of fragments from the Aphrodisias copy of Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices has already been published in this Journal; and the discovery of some 150 new pieces in the Portico of Tiberius during the campaign of excavation in 1970 has also been announced; more in fact came to light in the same area in 1971 and 1972. Work has proceeded meanwhile on the assembly of what may be described as an enormous jig-saw puzzle in which many of the pieces are too heavy to move freely, and others too heavy to move at all without tackle. It will take some time to complete, but there seems a case for publishing now the somewhat idiosyncratic version of the imperial titles which headed the copy and one substantial section of the price list which it has been possible to recompose in large part. All the fragments used are stored in the Aphrodisias Depot.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Roman Studies , Volume 63 , November 1973 , pp. 99 - 110
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Copyright ©K. T. Erim, Joyce Reynolds, K. D. White and Dorothy Charlesworth 1973. Exclusive Licence to Publish: The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

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References

1 Erim, Kenan and Reynolds, Joyce, JRS lx (1970), 120 f.Google Scholar; Erim, Kenan, Reynolds, Joyce and Crawford, Michael, JRS lxi (1971), 171 f.Google Scholar

2 We must acknowledge particular help in the assembly of the panels published here from Mrs. Linda Hatfield (formerly of Newnham College, Cambridge), and at Aphrodisias from Mr. Michael Hendy (Birmingham); in taking squeezes and photographs from Mr. and Mrs. Mossman Roueché (London), and for photographs of the squeezes from Mr. T. R. Volk (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge): for assistance in preparing the manuscript from Mrs. Janet Chapman (formerly of Newnham College, Cambridge).

3 As stated in 1971 (l.c. in n. 1, p. 172) the fragment CIL iii S, p. 2208, Aphrodisias I (Lauffer), previously published as from the Price Edict, belongs in fact to the related inscription on Currency Reform.

4 Often shared with the titles in the inscription on the Currency Reform, as was pointed out in 1971 (l.c. in n. l, p. 172).

5 For some palaeographical observations based on the Plataean copy, see Marichal, R., Aegyptus xxxii (1952), 342 f.Google Scholar

6 He has had to put the first item on the same line as the section heading, which is most unusual.